Buy metal strainers and loose leaf tea if you're a drinker. Very annoyed since I bought a big box of tea recently but this'll help me cut down on the single use shit I hadn't even considered yet
once again I win by using cheap ass lipton which is still using paper
One cup from a single tea bag could contain 11.6 billion microplastic and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles, the researchers estimated from their results, published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The bits are so tiny — on average, the size of grains of dust or pollen — that the amount in one cup is about 16 micrograms or one-sixtieth of a milligram of plastic.
Manmade horrors something something...lol
Because you obviously have no idea what good tea tastes like. You poor dumb American.
Whaaaat I thought they were made of paper. So pissed off rn :owl-pissed:
Good thing I love loose leaf :meow-coffee:
Yeah most of them are paper. This finding should only apply to fancy brands with “silken” tea bags
I had some store-bought tea bags made of that and I thought "okay this is sketch why does it not feel like paper, but no way they would make this out of plastic, still a little sus tho" aaaaaaaaand it's made of plastic. Whoever decided "lets make the tea bags out of plastic" needs to [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. Material scientists delenda est.
Whoever decided “lets make the tea bags out of plastic” needs to [redacted] [redacted] [redacted].
Guaranteed it was :lmayo: no Asian would do this to tea
I've only ever seen these at mayo-joints like WholeFoods and Teavana lol
I don't fucking know why companies are switching to these plastic teabags, I've always hated them for this reason, like you are boiling plastic bro anyway you cut it that's not good for you.
Like paper tea bags work fine, there wasn't a push to switch away from paper.
We switched to the metal strainer recently because of this. Just disgusting the wild disregard for peoples health that’s standard procedure in a capitalist economy. Where the meme about Romans using lead pipes even though they knew it caused lead poisoning with the second image being about plastics?
it's only the fancy bags that do it if it's regular paper you're fine
You buy any decent quality tea online, because 90% or more of it comes from China and the rest come from other countries you almost certainly don't live in.
Good examples are yunnansourcing (.com for the chinese site or .us for the site with less stock but comes from US warehouses, so you skip month or two long shipping if you live in Hell), Mei Leaf, camellia-sinensis.com, just to name three I have used and can personally recommend.
They also have ones that are like the mesh strainer you can put in your kitchen sink. They're honestly a little easier to clean.
That's why people who like tea drink loose tea. I can't even imagine drinking teabag tea - it tastes like cardboard mixed with an ashtray.
I bought some really cheap teabags recently and I could actually see the particles flaking off it. Idk if it was actually plastic but I wasn’t gonna drink it
You can also make tea in a French press! I got a pretty decent one for $15, and it's all metal and glass. I make a whole quart of tea in the morning and my partner and I refill from our thermal bottle all day.
I can't believe the plastic tea bags would be cheaper than the paper ones. I noticed they're usually in a "cool" shape though, the capitalists must have some data that tells them the plastic bags sell better.
